Take Action to Protect Pollinators

Fours Steps to Success*

Habitat Essentials

Food

Water

Nesting and overwintering sites

Avoid pesticide use, including insecticides, herbicides and fungicides in gardens. Herbicides eliminate some important food sources for bees and other pollinating animals. Insecticides and fungicides are increasingly implicated in serious pollinator declines.

Ground nesting bees

Keep or clear some exposed ground in a well drained, sunny part of your garden.

B.C. wild bees in decline, urgent action needed, says expert

“If you want to help British Columbia’s wild bees, plant a garden.

That’s the message Elizabeth Elle, a professor of community and evolutionary ecology at Simon Fraser University, tried to get across at a recent presentation to Metro Vancouver about the decline of wild bees due to habitat loss and pesticide use.”